Adam J. Bartlett, 37, and Rebecca J. Bartlett, 40, had already denied the charges at their September arraignment in Chicopee District Court, but the case has moved to Hampden Superior Court.

Judge Edward J. McDonough ordered each held on $10,000 cash bail. They denied charges of armed robbery, attempt to commit a crime (robbery), assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest and failure to stop for police.

That is the same bail they have been held on since their arraignment in Chicopee District Court. Adam Bartlett is represented by Timothy Farris and Rebecca Bartlett by Dale E. Bass.

Originally from Whitinsville, a village in Northbridge, the couple had been living for the month before the robbery at the Days Inn in Chicopee and had run out of pills, court records said.

The couple is charged with robbing "Oxycodone Tracker Bottles" from the Rite Aid on Meadow Street on Sept. 12, according to the indictments. The indictment for the armed robbery charge said they used an "unknown weapon."

The attempt to commit a crime count charges them with demanding oxycodone. For the charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the couple is alleged to have hit Chicopee police officer Terry Dec with a car door.

The couple was arrested in Framingham at about 7 p.m. on Sept. 12.

Adam Bartlett is a former police officer, having worked as a Hadley patrolman from 2005 until he resigned "for personal reasons" in 2013.

According to court records entered following their arrest, Rebecca Bartlett said both suffered bad backs and became addicted to prescription pills.

During the armed robbery, the pharmacy employee unlocked the safe and grabbed three bottles. Each had a tracking device in them and a total of about 25 pills, records show.

Police tracked the car to a spot near the Exit 5 entrance of the Massachusetts Turnpike. They asked Adam Bartlett to get out of the car, but he refused, saying he had been a police officer for 12 years and didn't have to, according to records.

One Chicopee officer approached the driver's side, and Dec approached the passenger side and opened the door. "Mr. Bartlett slammed the door closed on detective Dec's right hand as the operator simultaneously accelerated through the toll booth," court records state.

The couple then headed westbound on the Massachusetts Turnpike, switched directions by taking a U-turn on a service road in West Springfield, and headed eastbound leading Chicopee and Massachusetts State Police on a wild chase that exceeded speeds of 80 miles an hour, according to court records.

"The Malibu drove erratically crossing back and forth between lanes to avoid the stop sticks (which deflate tires). The vehicle also made high speed passes between motorists traveling eastbound, who had to move to avoid being hit," court records said.

The two stopped in Framingham after they ran out of gas, records said.

"The vehicle occupants initially refused to cooperate. Adam (Bartlett) stepped out of the vehicle in an agitated state saying he was not going to be arrested," court documents said.